<emYour roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is...HOT FUCKING STOVE!!!

• New Cardinals manager Mike Matheny may not have any previous managing experience, but he does have a ringing endorsement from Tony La Russa, who once described Matheny as "the only big league ballplayer he'd let one of his daughters marry."

• Theo Epstein is still distraught over his decision to trade Cla Meredith for Doug Mirabelli, because the Sox front office "got away from the process" in making it. No word on what role "the process" played in the John Lackey deal.